The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1887-09-08
RUTLER'S DISGRACE.

RUTLER'S DISGRACE.
A VOICE FROM HIS OWN PARTY.
Elizabethton Mountaineer, Rep.
In another column we copy from
the Knoxville Journal, a stanch and
influential Republican paper, some
very damaging and disgraceful charg-
es against the good name and fame of
our present member of Congress. We
are 10th to believe that Judge Butler
would thus basely barter away his
homer for paltry price. and delibera-
tely place such black and befouling
blot upon his character, These re-
markable revelations of such bold and
shameless bribery and corruption are
too startling for belief 1t surely is
not true that Judge Butler has had
the brazen audacity to attempt to bar
gain away the most sacred and sover-
eign birthright of American freeman
to make merchandise OF the manful
constituency who have stanchly and
steadily supported him through evil
as well as good report, and showered
shining honors thick and last upon
him, ever since he stepped into their
midst moneyless stranger from the
mountains of Southwest Virginia
many, many years ago. Can it be,
that he places such low estimate
upon the people who have followed
his bugle-blast to battle and to victory
so often, as to think that they will
tamely submit to being traded off,
like so many sheep for the shambles?
Can it be, that he considers us man
acled mass OF spiritless slaves, who
cringe and crawl at his feet like a lot
OF whipped and whining spaniels,
and that we'll bow at his beck and dc
his bidding, though it be to smother
our sentiments by stepping up to the
ballot-box and slipping in shut tick
ct against the amendment, which
aims at the abolition OF the internal
saloons which have filled our insane
asylums with gibbering idiots; over
run the criminal dockets of our courts
with criminal cases; crammed oul
prisons and penitentiaries with con
r victs; crowded our poor houses with
rag-hung starvelings and paupers
converted sober men into staggering
sots and stained with blood the dool
lintels of almost every home in thu
, State, and left a ruined, rum-slain vic
tim upon the threshold. sour rowing
Roderick revealing in such delusiv,
and delirious dreams? If so, how
soon will the dream be shattered, anC
the deluded dreamer awakened onl,
to find himself the mere skeleton
shadow of his former mighty self.
,. If these charges be true, the bride
! taker-like Judas Iscariot of old
: ought to fling back the blood-stainec
+ Doodle and HE away from the haunt
and homes OF honest men, to some Sc
questered spot where human foot
, steps never stray, and hang himself t.
= some thunder-blasted tree whose sap
S less branches will never bloom wit
flower or foliage again, and where tn
z lone, lifeless form, Through storm an,
shine" would slowly and stenchfull
. rot away. Itwould never be torn b
: the talons or mangled by the bcaks G
5 carrion birds, for it wouldn't furnish
= decent banquet for the buzzards
+ The carcas of such corrupt ma
o would so reek with rottenness, and b
T. so damned stenchful, that the yer
9 vultures and buzzards that feed on a
fostering foulnesss, would fly far, ia
+ beyond 1t to find less fouler food i
!. which to stick their sickening beakl
4 and with which to gorge their Carlo
Q craws. Without further comment W
\ will wait, believing that Judge Butte
8 will clear himself of these disgracefu
/ disclosures.